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Assignment Objectives:
Assignment Purpose:
To understand the calculation and use of attack rates and descriptive statistics in epidemiology
Assignment Description
Community members who attended the Annual Neighborhood picnic earlier today are experiencing illness which they believe is related to food served at the picnic. Using the information below:
1). Calculate the attack rate(s). Show your work.
2). Determine which food is mostly likely to have caused the illness?
Number of People Who Ate Specified Food
Number of People Who Do Not Eat Specified Food
Ill
Well
Total
Ill
Well
Total
Ham
29
17
46
17
12
29
Spinach
26
17
43
20
12
32
Potatoes
23
14
37
24
14
38
Salad
18
10
28
28
19
47
Rolls
21
16
37
25
13
38
During the investigation process, investigators questioned each person who became ill and who also ate ham and/or potatoes, howmany slices of ham and how many potatoes they ate. Using the information below:
3) Calculate the mean, median, mode, and range of the amount of ham and the amount of potatoes.
Number of slices of ham eaten:
1, 3, 4, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 4, 5, 3, 2, 4, 1, 2, 6, 2, 4, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 2
Number of potatoes eaten:
4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 1, 9, 6, 8, 4, 10, 14, 6, 4, 3, 2, 7, 3, 1, 7, 5, 9, 4, 15, 5, 5
4) For each food item, calculate the total percentage of people who became ill. (Total number of people who became ill divided by the total number of people).
5). Discuss your findings and explain how the study of epidemiology and use of descriptive statistics can assist in disease prevention. Submit your response as an APA page (at least one page) not counting the title page and reference page.
6). Submit all parts for grading.
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